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This document discusses how adapting social science methods to humanities research can create opportunities for interaction between humanists and social scientists. It proposes that an interdisciplinary center could facilitate such collaboration. The center would provide a physical and virtual space for structured discussions and informal meetings between representatives from various disciplines, including talks, workshops, mentorship and training. This would support new interdisciplinary research questions, methodologies, innovations and knowledge sharing through both planned interactions and "accidental" meetings between collaboration-ready scholars from different fields.
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- 1. Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research: Creating Opportunities for Interaction between Humanists and Social Scientists Dr. Lynne Siemens siemensl@uvic.ca MLA, January 2013
- 2. The Social Scientist on the Panel • By way of introduction (or perhaps even confession) • Management Scholar • Appointment in a School of Public Administration, University of Victoria • Interested in ways that Humanists, especially Digital Humanists, collaborate with those inside and outside their disciplines • How do these interactions create and support new research questions and methodologies? • How do we create opportunities for the necessary discussions?
- 3. One Possibility : The Interdisciplinary Centre • Examples • Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (Cambridge) • Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures (Kyoto) • Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College (London) • Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities (College Park) • Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (University of Victoria) • And many more (see http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/) • Commonalities • Representation of many disciplines, within and beyond the Humanities, including Social Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering and many others • Intellectual hub for speakers, research projects, training, tools, resources, collaboration • Virtual and physical spaces • And perhaps even coffee and comfortable chairs
- 4. The Interdisciplinary Centre: Format • Space for discussion and networks • Structured interactions between Social Scientists and Humanists • Talks, speakers and workshops grounded in a variety of disciplinary perspectives • Mentorship, training and guidance to graduate students and researchers interested in learning methodologies beyond their specific disciplinary ones • Informal and “accidental” meetings • Often the foundation to interdisciplinary innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing • Reinforces the need for a coffee machine and comfortable chairs
- 5. The Interdisciplinary Centre: People • Those who represent many disciplines • Both the obvious and the not so • Those who are collaboration-ready • Interested in working with others • Interested in other disciplinary perspectives • Faculty, researchers, students and many others